Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case oj Lucy D. Slowe: While Miss Slowe, dean of women for 15 years, lay on her deathbed, President Johnson sent a message announcing his intention to appoint her successor within 24 hours...
...were reported to be set to test their political strength by forcing the immediate choice of Coal Commissioner Pleas (rhymes with fez) E. Greenlee of Indiana as chairman. This week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have participated in the World War if it had been fully armed, Franklin Roosevelt...
...suspected of using poison in dealing with political opponents of Stalin, particularly in Asia, and revelations at the trial last week disclosed that the OGPU had a poison laboratory. It was at the disposal of former OGPU Chief Yagoda, sentenced to death, presumably is at the disposal of his successor, OGPU Chief Yezhov...
Yagoda, according to various testimony, attempted to poison Yezhov by having his own office, which his successor would occupy, sprayed with an atomized mercuric poison. Recent analysis of the urine of Yezhov was said to have proved that the poison has been partially effective and his health gravely affected...
Princeton oarsmen began their out-door work on Lake Carnegie as early as February 15. Coach Fred Sphun, entering up on his first season as Gordon Sikes's successor, sent the Tiger oarsmen off to the their earliest outdoor practice in the twenty-seven year-history of intercollegiate rowing at Princeton. Seventy-two men under the leadership of Captain Phil Le Boutillier took to the water with the temperature hovering below the freezing mark...